Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Possibilities of World Peace" was the theme of the Harvard World Federalists meeting last night in the Adams House Common Room. The hour long meeting consisted of movies, speakers, and discussion of the theme in light of the material presented...
...Washington, Norway's Ambassador Wilhelm Munthe de Morgen-stierne was welcomed at the conference table, where the representatives of the U.S., Britain, France, Benelux and Canada had shaped a pact that was almost ready for signatures. Of these nations, Norway is the only one which has a common border with Russia. Norway also sent a note to Russia frankly mentioning her participation in the Washington talks, and rejecting Moscow's demand for a Russian-Norwegian "nonaggression pact...
...word for rinse, and "wropping" was the method of braiding pickaninny pigtails. In Mississippi at least, a perjured slave was subject to "have both your ears nailed to the pillory, and cut off, and receive thirty-nine lashes on your bare back, well laid on, at the common whipping post." Then as now, a cockleburr was regarded as a bad thing to get under a saddle...
...Union Debate Council will meet Boston University in the Union Upper Common Room at 7:30 p.m. tonight...
Student paintings and photographs for Winthrop House's third annual art exhibit are on display in the House's Junior Common Room. Gerald James Holton, assistant senior tutor at Winthrop, is sponsoring the show...